![]() ![]() * The Oprah Magazine *ĭonoghue proves herself endlessly inventive. there is more to this mystery than superstitions and local dialect. There are fascinating bookends to this story that reaches too far in terms of form but it’s interesting to see a piece that’s about faith and skepticism in equal measure be so directly confrontational with its audience. ![]() Like, The Wonder explores a dark, insular, and rigidly controlled environment. a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child * Red Magazine * Heartbreaking and transcendent * New York Times *įans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder. Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about power to destroy - Stephen King * New York Times Book Review *Ī riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of trauma * Vogue *ĭonoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times * Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself - Sarah Lyall * New York Times *Ī fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner. Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. While Donoghue’s Wright has known great pain, it’s not the central reason for her devotion to Anna. ![]() Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wifeįascinating. In the novel, Donoghue spends far less time on Wright’s losses than on her subsequent experiences as a nurse in the Crimean War. ![]()
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